Comrade Alsky!

I have just learned from the protocol of the Small Soviet that 1 ruble in gold is being reckoned as 750 rubles in Soviet currency.

This is absurd. Worse than that: it will probably lead to a darkness of abuses.

When was this decision made? By whom? Find the exact text. Check it. Submit a draft of the change.

It is necessary to investigate carefully whether this led to abuses.

With comradely greetings, Lenin

First published in 1959

in Lenin Miscellany XXXVI

Printed from the manuscript